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If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Arthur C. Clarke
Age: 90 †
Born: 1917
Born: December 16
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
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Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
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Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
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I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, If you've got a message, use Western Union.
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The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket, far from being one of the destroyers of civilisation, may provide the safety-value that is needed to preserve it.
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Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
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One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships.
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The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.
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Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.
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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
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Now I'm a scientific expert that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.
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I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.
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I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
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The only real problem in life is what to do next.
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Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.
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Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
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